Bit at a Time Bible Hebrew -- Genesis 3:11-12

Genesis 3:11-12

 

יא וַיֹּאמֶר מִי הִגִּיד לְךָ כִּי עֵירֹם אָתָּה הֲמִן־הָעֵץ אֲשֶׁר צִוִּיתִיךָ לְבִלְתִּי אֲכָל־מִמֶּנּוּ אָכָלְתָּ:

יב וַיֹּאמֶר הָאָדָם הָאִשָּׁה אֲשֶׁר נָתַתָּה עִמָּדִי הִוא נָתְנָה־לִּי מִן־הָעֵץ וָאֹכֵל:

 

Translation:    He said who told you that you are naked, did you eat from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?  The man said, the woman that you gave with me, she gave me from the tree and I ate.

 

Vocabulary in this lesson:

מִי	Who?
הִגִּיד	told
הֲ	Question marker prefix
כִּי	That, if, when, because
לְבִלְתִּי	Not to [do something]
עִמָּדִי	With me

 

Notice that “did you” is ha-min.  The ha is a prefix that says a question follows.  Learn it, you’ll see it again.

 

“With me,” ‘imadi, means “accompanied by me”, NOT “by means of me” which is in an earlier lesson.  But notice that it is a special form.  The normal forms for “with, accompanied by” are based on the fact that et, the direct object particle, is also the preposition “with.” 

 

Singular	Plural	Person/gender
אִתִּי	אִתָּנוּ	First
אִתְּךָ	אִתְּכֶם	Second/masculine
אִתָּךְ	אִתְּכֶן	Second/feminine
אִתֹּו	אִתּהֶם	Third/masculine
אִתָּה	אִתּהֶן	Third/feminine

 

Now go back and compare the forms above with lesson 28, on Genesis 1:17.  There’s only a vowel change between them.  Again, if there were no vowels, you would know which one was meant because “accompanying somebody” here is going to be used in completely different circumstances from when you see somebody, touch somebody, etc., that is, the accusative case.

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